The election for the Senate hasn’t ended well. To have four senators from One Nation in the upper house is worse than unfortunate.
- Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Malcolm Turnbull has announced that the heads of Australia’s big four banks will be grilled annually by the House of Representatives economics committee.
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has won four Senate seats – two, including Hanson’s, in Queensland, one in NSW and one in Western Australia.
Teaching graduates are expected to meet new test standard from July 1 this year.
Former British foreign secretary David Miliband says Kevin Rudd ‘undoubtedly had the qualification’ to be a candidate for the United Nations secretary-general post.
Malcolm Turnbull has sternly told the banks they should pass on the whole of Tuesday’s rate cut - or their chief executives must explain why they are not doing so.
Refugees and asylum seekers on Nauru routinely face neglect by Australian-hired health workers and frequent unpunished assaults by local Nauruans, according to an investigation.
The royal commission into the Northern Territory's youth detention and child protection systems has had a shaky start.
Less than a week after being named royal commissioner to investigate the Northern Territory child detention and protection systems, Brian Martin has quit, citing criticisms of his appointment.
Labor has won the Queensland seat of Herbert, but the Liberal National Party has left the way open for a court challenge.
A furious Kevin Rudd has released correspondence in which he wrote that on ‘multiple’ occasions Malcolm Turnbull had backed his candidature to run for UN secretary-general.
Tiernan Brady was the political director of the 'yes' campaign during the Irish referendum on same-sex marriage. He is in Australia to help advise local advocates.
Malcolm Turnbull’s decision to stymie Kevin Rudd’s bid to run for the United Nations secretary-general post is ill-judged, unjustified and unfair. It is a capitulation to the Liberal conservatives. It…
Malcolm Turnbull swiftly announced a royal commission this week in response to revelations about the treatment of boys in the Don Dale youth detention facility.
Malcolm Turnbull has prevented Kevin Rudd from running to be secretary-general of the United Nations, declaring he is not suitable for the job.
The high rate of both youth and adult indigenous incarceration is a national disgrace.
Malcolm Turnbull has been left to decide whether the government should allow Kevin Rudd to be a candidate for secretary-general of the United Nations.
The strength of Julie Bishop will be tested on Thursday when she proposes the government should nominate Kevin Rudd to run for secretary-general of the United Nations.
It is surely extraordinary it took a Four Corners program, excellent as it was, to force the attention of Northern Territory and federal politicians on to the scandal of the NT detention system when most…
Scott Morrison has set himself in apparent opposition to Julie Bishop over Australia’s nomination of Kevin Rudd as a candidate for secretary-general of the United Nations.
The proposed scheme would cover high-risk terrorist offenders.
Bill Shorten has made some very sound decisions in his far-reaching frontbench overhaul, but the exercise contained some shockers as well. Moving deputy leader Tanya Plibersek from shadow foreign minister…
Deputy Labor leader picks up schools from Kate Ellis and higher education from Kim Carr.
Bill Shorten has found a way to keep Kim Carr in Labor’s shadow ministry by expanding his frontbench – to the fury of the left, which had withdrawn support for the Victorian senator.
Just as there were winners and losers in Malcolm Turnbull’s ministerial reshuffle at the beginning of the week, there will be frontbench promotions and demotions in the Labor Party in the coming days.
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